1.  Another option is arranging for allied nations to deploy peacekeeping troops that would not formally be part of the force in several Afghan cities.

2.  Before last year, little was known about the camps, located in clusters near the Afghan cities of Kandahar, Jalalabad, Kabul and Khost.

3.  A week after arriving in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, the parents flew to Kabul, the Afghan city where their daughters were kept.

4.  Each morning, this northern Afghan city awakens to a stunning vocal performance.

5.  Hundreds of international aid workers have decided not to return yet to Jalalabad, the only major Afghan city on the road from Pakistan to Kabul.

6.  In Afghan cities under their control, music and photographs are forbidden, and their possession could mean jail time.

7.  Indeed when compared to other Afghan cities, Herat appears peaceful and orderly.

8.  Karzai could not attend the talks in Germany because of the fighting around Kandahar, the southern Afghan city that is the spiritual home of the Taliban.

9.  Kabul is the only Afghan city where detonation and de-mining activities are under way, because others are still too dangerous to enter.

10.  Last week, Nasir laid down his gun in Kunduz, the northern Afghan city, where thousands of Taliban soldiers thought better of fighting to the end.